Saim
#8,124 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Saim has been given to 242 babies in the U.S. since 1998. In 2025 it ranked #8,124 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2018, with 15 recorded.
Babies named Saim, 2025
1 in 332,000
Saim over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Saim?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 332,000
- 10 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 171,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #8,124
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 229,791 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Saim sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 229,791 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Saim. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Saims were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Saim was born before 2014 — so the typical Saim is around 11 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 38.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 95.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 242
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 38.8% of all recorded uses (94).
Is Saim rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- −1,375
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −1,167
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −699
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.91×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 66.7%
- Peak was 2018 (15)
- Years since peak
- 7
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 37.2% average annual change
Spellings of Saim
Saim is not the most common spelling — Jim is, with 17.9% against Saim's 0.03%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Saim around the world
Where Saim ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- England & Wales1997–2025#2,269in 2025
- Scotland2003–2003#417in 2003
- France1990–2025#2,562in 2025
- Canada2002–2024#2,550in 2024
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Saim by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Saim
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Saim
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.